I went to [http://www.berkeley.edu UC Berkeley] and worked with [http://www.lbl.gov/~aparkin Adam Arkin] and Dale Kaiser on modeling traveling wave formation in ''M. xanthus''. I came to [http://web.mit.edu/ MIT] as a graduate student in [http://web.mit.edu/be biological engineering]. In February, 2002, I joined [[Drew Endy]]'s lab. I started work on understanding the development of a simple virus that infects bacteria, bacteriophage T7. I am now a sixth year graduate student and am an active member of the [[OpenWetWare:Steering committee|Steering Committee]]. Also, until January 2007, I am the interim [[OpenWetWare:ByLaws#Elected Positions|Spokesperson]] for OpenWetWare. I am starting as a post-doc in [http://laublab.mit.edu/ Mike Laub's lab] in January as well.

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I am curently a member of the [http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpage/72/advanced-technology-team Advanced Technology Team] in the [http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpage/101/synthetic-biology Synthetic Biology Platform] at the [http://wyss.harvard.edu/ Wyss Institute]. I was a postdoc in [[User:Geochurch|George Church]]'s [[Church Lab|lab]] in the [http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/ Department of Genetics] at Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute from 2009-2011. From 2007-2009, I was the first employee of a biofuel startup called [http://jouleunlimited.com/ Joule Unlimited]. I got my ScD in [http://web.mit.edu/be/index.shtml Biological Engineering] at MIT in [[Drew Endy]]'s lab and worked on understanding the development of a simple virus (T7) that infects ''E. coli''. As an undergraduate in [http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/ Bioengineering] at UC Berkeley, I worked with [http://www.lbl.gov/~aparkin Adam Arkin], Dale Kaiser, and Roy Welch on modeling traveling wave formation in ''M. xanthus''. I also co-founded OpenWetWare.

==Science==

==Science==

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===Interests===

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*Understanding those aspects of biological design that allow for certain robust features of development in the face of large intrinsic and extrinsic variation specifically on non-evolutionary time-scales (I am currently giving up on the past. That may change in the future.).

*Enabling the design, construction, and use of biological organisms for the purposes of further scientific understanding; keeping extremely aware of the use of engineered biological organisms for other purposes.